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openSUSE: 2024:0590-1 Important: Bind Security Update for DoS Issues

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Calendar Grey February 22, 2024
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Critical security notice regarding BIND exposing various vulnerabilities within SUSE operating systems and suggested patches.
This update for bind fixes the following issues: Update to release 9.16.48:

Description

This update for bind fixes the following issues:

Update to release 9.16.48:

Feature Changes: * The IP addresses for B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET have been updated to

170.247.170.2 and 2801:1b8:10::b.

Security Fixes: * Validating DNS messages containing a lot of DNSSEC signatures

could cause excessive CPU load, leading to a denial-of-service condition. This

has been fixed. (CVE-2023-50387) [bsc#1219823] * Preparing an NSEC3 closest

encloser proof could cause excessive CPU load, leading to a denial-of-service

condition. This has been fixed. (CVE-2023-50868) [bsc#1219826] * Parsing DNS

messages with many different names could cause excessive CPU load. This has been

fixed. (CVE-2023-4408) [bsc#1219851] * Specific queries could cause named to

crash with an assertion failure when nxdomain-redirect was enabled. This has

been fixed. (CVE-2023-5517) [bsc#1219852] * A bad interaction between DNS64 and

serve-stale could cause named to crash with an assertion failure, when both of

these features were...

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Patch

## Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like

YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

* openSUSE Leap 15.4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-2024-590=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP4-ESPOS-2024-590=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP4-LTSS-2024-590=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP4 LTSS 15-SP4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLED-15-SP4-LTSS-2024-590=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 LTSS 15-SP4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-SP4-LTSS-2024-590=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-SP4-2024-590=1

* SUSE Manager Proxy 4.3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SUSE-Manager-Proxy-4.3-2024-590=1

* SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.3

zypper in -t patch...

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Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.4 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)

* bind-utils-9.16.48-150400.5.40.1

* bind-debugsource-9.16.48-150400.5.40.1

* bind-utils-debuginfo-9.16.48-150400.5.40.1

* bind-9.16.48-150400.5.40.1

* bind-debuginfo-9.16.48-150400.5.40.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.4 (noarch)

* bind-doc-9.16.48-150400.5.40.1

* python3-bind-9.16.48-150400.5.40.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP4 (aarch64

x86_64)

* bind-utils-9.16.48-150400.5.40.1

* bind-debugsource-9.16.48-150400.5.40.1

* bind-utils-debuginfo-9.16.48-150400.5.40.1

* bind-9.16.48-150400.5.40.1

* bind-debuginfo-9.16.48-150400.5.40.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP4 (noarch)

* bind-doc-9.16.48-150400.5.40.1

* python3-bind-9.16.48-150400.5.40.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP4 (aarch64

x86_64)

* bind-utils-9.16.48-150400.5.40.1

* bind-debugsource-9.16.48-150400.5.40.1

* bind-utils-debuginfo-9.16.48-150400.5.40.1

* bind-9.16.48-150400.5.40.1

*...

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References

* bsc#1219823

* bsc#1219826

* bsc#1219851

* bsc#1219852

* bsc#1219853

* bsc#1219854

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4408.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-50387.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-50868.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5517.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5679.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-6516.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1219823

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1219826

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1219851

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1219852

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1219853

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1219854

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2024:0590-1
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